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Flocking behavior of multiple agents can be widely observed in nature such as schooling fish and flocking birds. Recent literature has proposed the possibility that flocking is possible even only a small fraction of agents are informed of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-05-08 Jin Zhou , Wenwu Yu , Xiaoqun Wu , Michael Small , Jun-an Lu

Many empirical networks are intrinsically pluralistic, with interactions occurring within groups of arbitrary agents. Then the agent in the network can be influenced by types of neighbors, common examples include similarity, opposition, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Shuo Liu , Xiwang Guan , Shuangling Luo , Haoxiang Xia

While we would like agents that can coordinate with humans, current algorithms such as self-play and population-based training create agents that can coordinate with themselves. Agents that assume their partner to be optimal or similar to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Micah Carroll , Rohin Shah , Mark K. Ho , Thomas L. Griffiths , Sanjit A. Seshia , Pieter Abbeel , Anca Dragan

Federated learning is a setting where agents, each with access to their own data source, combine models from local data to create a global model. If agents are drawing their data from different distributions, though, federated learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg

Classic computational models of collective motion suggest that simple local averaging rules can promote many observed group level patterns. Recent studies, however, suggest that rules simpler than local averaging may be at play in real…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-05-19 Vivek Jadhav , Vishwesha Guttal , Danny Raj M

The theoretical study of social learning typically assumes that each agent's action affects only her own payoff. In this paper, I present a model in which agents' actions directly affect the payoffs of other agents. On a discrete time line,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Yangbo Song

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide instructions to many agents who interact with one another. Such shared reliance couples agents who appear to act independently: they may in fact be guided by a common model. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jonathan Shaki , Eden Hartman , Sarit Kraus , Yonatan Aumann

Populations of mobile and communicating agents describe a vast array of technological and natural systems, ranging from sensor networks to animal groups. Here, we investigate how a group-level agreement may emerge in the continuously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-25 Andrea Baronchelli , Albert Diaz-Guilera

Complementarity is one of the main features underlying the interactions in biological and biochemical systems. Inspired by those systems we propose a model for the dynamical evolution of a system composed by agents that interact due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Copelli , R. M. Zorzenon dos Santos , J. S. Sa Martins

In this paper, we consider a mean field model of social behavior where there are an infinite number of players, each of whom observes a type privately that represents her preference, and publicly observes a mean field state of types and…

General Economics · Economics 2023-03-07 Deepanshu Vasal

Information sharing between individuals is crucial to improve performance in collective tasks. However, in a competitive world, individuals may be reluctant to share information with the others, and it is still unclear how the presence of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-04 Ye Wang , Andrea Civilini , Anzhi Sheng , Xiaojie Chen , Long Wang , Vito Latora

When resources are scarce, will a population of AI agents coordinate in harmony, or descend into tribal chaos? Diverse decision-making AI from different developers is entering everyday devices -- from phones and medical devices to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Neil F. Johnson

Evolution of disease in a large population is a function of the top-down policy measures from a centralized planner, as well as the self-interested decisions (to be socially active) of individual agents in a large heterogeneous population.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 S. Yagiz Olmez , Shubham Aggarwal , Jin Won Kim , Erik Miehling , Tamer Başar , Matthew West , Prashant G. Mehta

We study the effects of social influences in opinion dynamics. In particular, we define a simple model, based on the majority rule voting, in order to consider the role of conformity. Conformity is a central issue in social psychology as it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-18 Marco Alberto Javarone

Decision making can be difficult when there are many actors (or agents) who may be coordinating or competing to achieve their various ideas of the optimum outcome. Here I present a simple decision making model with an explicitly…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Paul Kinsler

The emergence of collective cooperation in competitive environments is a well-known phenomenon in biology, economics, and social systems. While most evolutionary game models focus on the evolution of strategies for a fixed game, how…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-01 Onkar Sadekar , Andrea Civilini , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Vito Latora , Federico Battiston

In various economic environments, people observe other people with whom they strategically interact. We can model such information-sharing relations as an information network, and the strategic interactions as a game on the network. When…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-27 Nathan Canen , Jacob Schwartz , Kyungchul Song

To effectively forage in natural environments, organisms must adapt to changes in the quality and yield of food sources across multiple timescales. Individuals foraging in groups act based on both their private observations and the opinions…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-09 Subekshya Bidari , Orit Peleg , Zachary P Kilpatrick

We explored decision-making dynamics in social systems, referencing the 'herd behavior' from prior studies where individuals follow preceding choices without understanding the underlying reasons. While previous research highlighted a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Lu Li , Huangxing Li

In real-world systems, phase transitions often materialize abruptly, making it difficult to design appropriate controls that help uncover underlying processes. Some agent-based computational models display transformations similar to phase…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-10 S. S. Chanda , B. McKelvey